Saturday morning came around, and Lizzie, ready as ever, came down the stairs to be greeted by Gordo and Miranda at the bottom of the stairway. They appeared very nervous, and rightly so, for they had to get the message about the worm through to Lizzie.
"Lizzie, we need to talk,'' said Gordo.
"About what?'' asked Lizzie.
Miranda held up a printout of the pictures contained in the worm and said, "About these.'' Lizzie started to gag at the sight of the pictures, and Gordo motioned Miranda to put the paper down. "You see, that thing in the e-mail doesn't fix connectivity problems, it puts those horrible pictures up on everyone's desktop!''
"Take that beanse thing and get rid of it!'' pleaded Gordo. Lizzie went back upstairs and erased every trace of beanse.cx.exe she had. When Lizzie returned, the three left for the Bean. There, they ordered their coffee and did some surfing, as they always did.
An hour after they had arrived, Ethan came into the Bean with his hot pink thumb drive, and Lizzie, having finished her super-coffee, felt things moving a little too fast and furious and waddled to the bathroom, where all those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches would make their way out, much to Claryssa's chagrin, of course.
Reginald, still in the upstairs apartment, heard the toilet seat below go down and ran into the bedroom with a plastic shopping bag. He removed the fake "heating duct'''s diffuser (the one that was always blowing out air), wrapped it with the bag, then put it back in, just as Lizzie started unloading.
Claryssa was sitting on the stairs just behind the door to the Digital Bean, waiting for some sign that the worm had taken hold. She didn't have to wait long, as Ethan got on a station and put in his hot pink thumb drive, the only color Best Buy had when he went to get one. He opened an Explorer window to the drive, and double-clicked the file named beanse.cx.exe.
The Pwnage of the Digital Bean had begun.
Within a minute, all the screens in the Bean were showing The Stinger. Groans of disgust filled the air. Gordo and Miranda looked around to see Lizzie come out of the bathroom, opening the door wide enough for it to hold itself open. This led to the smell of Lizzie's immense dump coming into the main room, since the fan had been plugged up by Reginald's dirty little bag trick.
Many patrons left the Bean immediately, owing to the bathroom odors coinciding with the sight of The Stinger's gaping "exhaust vent''. Lizzie stood confused in front of the bathroom door, as Ethan scratched his head, wondering what he had done. Gordo and Miranda shook their heads in defeat, realizing that although they had dealt with Lizzie's Beanse, other Beanses existed and some would be used.
By this time, the wallpapers switched to The Bathtub Fountain, which, combined with the fading - but still strong - scent, made for an even more unpleasant ambiance. Reginald took the bag off the diffuser, then came out the apartment through the back, got a restore CD from his car, and walked nonchalantly into the Bean.
Seeing that the screens were showing The Harlequin, Reginald knew that Pain3, the first collage of doom, was coming up. He ran to one of the stations, put the restore CD on the table, and opened up a command prompt to run and delete the Beangirl script. This restored the wallpaper of that station to normal.
There were fifteen more stations to deal with. Reginald cleaned up six of these, but then the "sands'' of the little overlaid hourglasses shown on the infected stations had reached the bottom. This was the signal that the wallpapers were changing, and this time, they changed to Pain3. Gordo and Miranda looked away as Ethan gaped at the disgusting collage, which included The Stinger and The Bathtub Fountain, as well as a variety of mutilations.
Reginald picked up the restore CD and used it as a shield from the horrible collage as he blindly entered the magic commands, unshackling each station from the grip of the worm and its shock images. Finally, he came to the station next to Ethan's and ran Beangirl. The wallpapers of doom were no more.
The smell of Lizzie's bowl-filling dump had also disappeared, getting sucked into the fan and sent through the usual route. As some patrons returned, Claryssa came out the door and asked, "What happened here?''
"Someone with the homo thumb drive must have put a worm into the network,'' said Reginald, pointing squarely at Ethan. Miranda took an opportunity to go to the payphone next to the bathroom door and call the village up regarding the suspicion that the Digital Bean's bathroom fan was indeed blowing into a tenant's bedroom.
Gordo then added, "While the hole stretcher and that nacho cheese fountain were on all the screens, Lizzie opened the bathroom door and let the smell into here.'' Claryssa ran back up to her apartment to laugh, while Reginald took his restore CD and followed.